Arabic vocabulary
تَمْتَنِعrefrain
How to say “refrain” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وتمتنع فِيمَا يسْتَقْبل من الذُّنُوب
And you refrain in the future from sins.
وَتَمْتَنِعُ — and you refrain. The 'you' is built into this present verb, which sits in the pattern that inserts a '-t-' for a self-directed action, 'you hold yourself back'. No separate pronoun is needed for the subject.
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